Letter from Henry Bordeaux de l’Académie française(to Jacques Des Roches, (pseudonym of Jean-Gabriel Vacheron)
Paris: 1939. ALs, 2 pages regarding a meeting to a probable fellow member of Opus Dei....
Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer....
Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chambéry bar. During his early life, he relocated between Savoy and Paris and the tensions between provincial and city life influenced his writings. In his professional life he observed closely the dissolution of numerous families and analysed the causes and consequences of these. From the age of seventeen he spent three years in Paris studying law. Then he returned to practice law in Savoy. He returned to Paris after the publication of his first book during 1894. When his father died in 1896 he returned to Savoy......
Henry Bordeaux devait siéger à l’Académie française pendant plus de quarante ans et en devenir le doyen d’âge et d’élection....
Ses nombreux romans, parmi lesquels on compte notamment Le Pays natal (1900), La Peur de vivre (1902), La Petite mademoiselle (1905), Les Roquevillard (1906), Les Yeux qui s’ouvrent (1908), La Croisée des chemins (1909), La Robe de laine (1910), La Neige sur les pas (1911), La Maison (1913), La Résurrection de la chair (1920), La Chartreuse du reposoir (1924), La Revenante (1932), s’inscrivent dans la lignée de ceux d’un Paul Bourget, à qui il écrivit : « Il me semble que si, quelque lien rattache mes romans les uns aux autres, ce lien serait le sens de la famille ».
Les romans d’Henry Bordeaux, qui pour la plupart ont pour cadre sa Savoie natale, sont en effet un hymne sans cesse renouvelé à la famille et aux valeurs traditionnelles, religieuses et morales, dont elle est la garante.....
Included is a "Certificate d'exportation pour un bien cuturel" issued by by Ministère Culture of France....
Expertise by Thierry Bodin,
Syndicat Français des
Experts Professionnels en Œuvres d’Art.
Les Autographes
45, rue de l’Abbé Grégoire 75006 Paris. Item #51-3947
Price: $125.00